Past Event Category: Lecture
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Apr 5“It’s a lot harder in Wisconsin than here”: The Contours of German-American Immigration to Iowa
Speaker(s): Glenn Ehrstine Location: University Club, 801 State Street, Madison Co-sponsor(s): University of Iowa German Department; Department of German, Nordic, Slavic at UW–Madison Description: This lecture is the keynote address at the opening of the exhibit “German Iowa and the Global Midwest.” It is followed by a reception. Glenn Ehrstine is Associate Professor of German …
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Nov 16Translation and the German-American Experience: Historical Letter Collections
Speaker(s): Viktorija Bilić Location: Union South, UW–Madison Description: Historical letters are a valuable source of information on the American immigrant experience. However, letters written in German and other immigrant languages are only accessible to those readers who speak the languages today. This lecture considers the interdisciplinary nature of translation studies and discusses translation challenges, the …
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May 5The Enemy at Home: German-Americans in the World War I Era
Speaker(s): Cora Lee Kluge Location: Wisconsin Veterans Museum, 30 W Mifflin St, Madison, WI 53703 Description: Quarterly dinner lecture event at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum. Join Cora Lee Kluge, Co-Director of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, as she explores both the illiberalism and intolerance experienced by German Americans in the World War I …
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Apr 19Of German Neighborhoods and Low German Villages: Spoken German in South Africa
Speaker(s): Peter Wagener Location: Union South, UW–Madison Co-sponsor(s): Department of German, Center for European Studies, Center for German and European Studies, African Studies Program, History Department Description: This lecture presents the results of recording sessions taken during a journey through South Africa, in February/March 2012 as part of the project „Spoken German in Southern Africa“. …
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Oct 8Imperial Germany as a Country of Emigration and Immigration
Speaker(s): Werner Sollors Location: University Club, 803 State Street, Madison Co-sponsor(s): UW Lectures Committee Description: This lecture is the keynote address to the international symposium “Outside the Kaiserreich: the German Diaspora in the World War I Era.” About five million Germans—some political refugees but mostly economic migrants—came to the United States between 1850 and 1920 …
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Nov 21The Forgotten Minority: Urban Germans of the Confederate States During the American Civil War
Speaker(s): Andrea Mehrländer Location: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Memorial Union Co-sponsor(s): UW–Madison Lectures Committee, Department of German,Center for German and European Studies, Friends of the Max Kade Institute Description: Most German immigrants settled in America’s northern states, and most of the German Americans who took part in the American Civil War fought on the side of …
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Nov 20The Metamorphosis of a Reunified Berlin
Speaker(s): Andrea Mehrländer Location: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Memorial Union Co-sponsor(s): UW–Madison Lectures Committee, Department of German,Center for German and European Studies, Friends of the Max Kade Institute Description: This lecture, to be held two days before the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, will juxtapose public activities in Berlin to commemorate JFK’s …
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Oct 17Rocking the Wall: Bruce Springsteen in East Germany
Speaker(s): Erik Kirschbaum Location: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Memorial Union Co-sponsor(s): UW–Madison Department of German Description: How could a rock concert move an entire nation, like Springsteen did in July 1988 in East Berlin, to rise up and reach out for more freedom? How could one artist singing about “Chimes of Freedom” and speaking out against …
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May 1Die deutschsprachige Minderheit in Südtirol: Geschichte und linguistische Situation
Speaker(s): Christian A. Schwarz Location: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Memorial Union Co-sponsor(s): Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache, UW–Madison Department of German Description: This Lecture will be held in German Südtirol wurde nach dem Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges im Jahre 1919 von Österreich an Italien abgetreten, wodurch die mehrheitlich deutschsprachige Bevölkerung dieser Region von einem Tag auf den …
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Apr 26The German Diaspora before World War I: Destinations and Discourse
Speaker(s): Stefan Manz Location: UW Madison Campus – UNION SOUTH Description: By 1914, after decades of mass emigration, Germans were to be found in all parts of the world. Ethnic communities ranged from large-scale ‘Little Germanies’ in the United States or Brazil to small merchant communities in Western Europe, East Asia and other regions. Finding …